Science Fiction Trivia

[Smivs]

Sorry, I have been very busy these last days.
Expect a difficult one on Sunday
Kas

Ah, the curse of RL! No worries...looking forward to Sunday

[Rxke]

Dear diary:

Today it is Sunday. So far, no difficulties!

[Cody]

Today it is Sunday. So far, no difficulties!

Yep... it was just a little tricky making the tea, but otherwise... no problems.

[Kasero]

Hello all, here we are:

Orbiting a red giant star is a planet with four moons.
The lands are divided by continuous border conflicts into a multitude of small, belligerent kingdoms.
And there is the lady with her hawk.

What is the title of the book and who wrote it?

[Kasero]

Little tip:
All these kingdoms were known as "The Hundred Kingdoms"

[Kasero]

Hum... May be some more help is needed.

The first name of the young lady is Romilly.

[Smivs]

<Google, google....>
Hawkmistress! by Marion Zimmer Bradley?

[Kasero]

Correct, Smiv

This book is part of a series which spans over several era (Ages of Chaos, The Hundred Kingdoms, ...) during more than a thousand years on Darkover, a planet colonized by humans, but later forgotten.

Over to you.

[Smivs]

Time for another picture clue. What type of ship is this?

[Rese249er]

First glance looks like two different ship-architectural styles, with the aft displaying a more organic look than the fore half.

[Disembodied]

It's a White Star, from Babylon 5.

[JensAyton]

Pah. It’s a W… Hey, this is an evil plot to make me think of another clue, isn’t it? Well, I won’t fall for that again.

[Cody]

<sniggers>

[Smivs]

It's a White Star, from Babylon 5.

Correct. Well done and over to you...

[Disembodied]

OK, let's try this. There is no one single right answer to this: the winner is the first person to post the names of six different broadly felinoid races from published science fiction – books, films, TV, games, whatever – with attribution, e.g.

Moggizoids - Flash Ronald's Space Adventure

Note: just listing feline-inhabited words in Elite/Oolite doesn't count ... in fact, the one restriction is that the felinoid aliens have to be from somewhere other than Elite/Oolite.

(I once had a minor argument online with a Labour MP - Tom Watson, in fact, the one who's been kicking Murdoch around of late - on the bizarre subject of whether or not feline aliens were overused in SF. He said no, I said yes. I won.)